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this, after a viewer of "america's most wanted" called in a tip. abc's todd connor has the latest. >> reporter: police arrested 35-year-old michael paul merhige. late saturday night. only an hour after the show "america's most wanted" profiled him for a fourth time. they believe he checked into a small hotel using a fake name about a week after the massacre. >> there was one entrance to the room. law enforcement officers made entry and found him inside. >> reporter: police say he was tasered and captured. as recently as even this weekend, volunteers and a relative handed out flyers in hopes that someone would recognize him and he would turn himself in. >> you have ruined your parents' lives. give yourself up, put an end to your misery. >> reporter: the arrest ends a five-week search. it was on thanksgiving night, shortly after sharing dinner with 16 relatives in florida that he allegedly shot and killed his pregnant sister and her twin, an aunt and a young cousin. >> he shot multiple people. i think he shot my 6-year-old daughter. >> we're on the w
this, after a viewer of "america's most wanted" called in a tip. abc's todd connor has the latest. >> reporter: police arrested 35-year-old michael paul merhige. late saturday night. only an hour after the show "america's most wanted" profiled him for a fourth time. they believe he checked into a small hotel using a fake name about a week after the massacre. >> there was one entrance to the room. law enforcement officers made entry and found him inside. >>...
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. >> i think it would be truly irresponsible for us, america, to send prisoners of war we hold now at guantanamo back to yemen. >> reporter: the white house says once the facility closes some yemeni detainees will return there. the administration says it's working with that nation's government to assure americans' safety. >>> 5:04. new rules are going in place now when you fly within the u.s. when you fly into the u.s. just yesterday a man slipped through security at newark airport up in new jersey and police are looking for him this morning. they still haven't found him. authorities say the man walked through a screening checkpoint exit, into the secure side of the continental terminal. police are looking at surveillance tapes to try to identify the man. airline passengers are boarding again this morning after flights were grounded for most of the day yesterday. so, the transportation security administration is getting ready for more patdowns, questions, random checks, it's all a result of the failed christmas day terrorist attack aboard a u.s. airliner in michigan. sherrie johnson l
. >> i think it would be truly irresponsible for us, america, to send prisoners of war we hold now at guantanamo back to yemen. >> reporter: the white house says once the facility closes some yemeni detainees will return there. the administration says it's working with that nation's government to assure americans' safety. >>> 5:04. new rules are going in place now when you fly within the u.s. when you fly into the u.s. just yesterday a man slipped through security at newark...
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we have to apply the rule of law to those we detain both abroad and in america. i think the al qaeda threat is different from what it was on 9/11. i think it is extremely strong, especially in yemen. i'm glad the president decided to focus more assets on yemen. this is a global problem. we need a global counterterrorism strategy. as we fix the specific problem that allowed a 23-year-old nigerian kid to board a plane with the explosives, let's have a layered system that anticipated new problems. finally, there's a home grown terror problem in the united states. we have to understand it. we have to work against it more adroitly. as we do that, i think sit past time for the president to stand up, the privacy and civil liberties board that the four of us put in the 2004 intelligence reform act, that civil liberties board is responsible for doing something we must do. which is to factor in the protection of our constitution as we develop new and harder hitting policies against the bad guys trying to attack us domestically and internationally. >> let me ah ask about th
we have to apply the rule of law to those we detain both abroad and in america. i think the al qaeda threat is different from what it was on 9/11. i think it is extremely strong, especially in yemen. i'm glad the president decided to focus more assets on yemen. this is a global problem. we need a global counterterrorism strategy. as we fix the specific problem that allowed a 23-year-old nigerian kid to board a plane with the explosives, let's have a layered system that anticipated new problems....
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and he began hosting "america's most wanted" in 1988. >> welcome to the premiere of "america's most wanted." >> reporter: last year the walsh family got the closest thing to justice they will ever get. a new police chief in hollywood, florida, closed adam's case. officially declaring that otis toole murdered adam. >> if otis toole was alive today he'd be arrested for the abduction and murder of adam walsh on july 27, 1981. >> reporter: walsh doesn't give up easily. he did a total of eight shows on the case of elizabeth smart. a case he ultimately helped solve. nine months after the 14-year-old utah girl was abducted from her bedroom -- >> please let her go. please. >> reporter: an elderly couple who'd seen elizabeth's story on "america's most wanted" recognized the suspect and a disguised elizabeth smart. >> it's real! >> the highlight of the 23 years is when the smart family asked me to fly to salt lake city the day that elizabeth was recovered. and when i saw elizabeth walk down the stairs that night, i said, this is good. it's a home run. >> this twisted hunk of junk was once a shiny '9
and he began hosting "america's most wanted" in 1988. >> welcome to the premiere of "america's most wanted." >> reporter: last year the walsh family got the closest thing to justice they will ever get. a new police chief in hollywood, florida, closed adam's case. officially declaring that otis toole murdered adam. >> if otis toole was alive today he'd be arrested for the abduction and murder of adam walsh on july 27, 1981. >> reporter: walsh doesn't...